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Selected Journalism: 1850-1870 (Penguin Classics)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was the greatest of the Victorian English novelists. He authored such masterpieces as "Pickwick Papers"; "David Copperfield"; "Bleak House"; "Oliver Twist"; "Barnaby Rudge: and "A Tale of Two Cities". Most of his novels were doorstops in size. They were often involved tales of murder, deceit, poverty, child abuse, romance and mystery. Dickens was a master at drawing unusual characters which stick in a reader's mind. He was also a comic genius and a skilled storyteller who wove intricate plots in the loom of his brilliant mind.
However, few readers are conversant with Dickens many articles penned during his long literary career. Dickens began as a parliamentary reporter and continued to write articles on the passing scene throughout his life.
In "Selected Journalism 1850-1870; we peruse a generous selection of articles Dickens authored as editor of the periodicals "Household Words" and "All the Year Round." Other articles in this thick 600 page collection have been culled from such Victorian staples as "Cornhill" magazine. (in which Dickens eulogized his fellow author William Makepeace Thackery in 1863)
Within these many Penguin pages you will find articles on a whole gamut of subjects. Such articles deal with crime in London streets, poor houses,
Christmas and memories of the author's childhood school, racing at Epsom and the various locales the Dickens family lived in during summers abroad and in seaside towns in England.
The neophyte Dickens reader should start with the novels but these articles are also delightful. Well recommended for hours of reading pleasure.